Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary 4-6 September 2017, Bucharest
JAPAN - PREMODERN, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY 4-6 September 2017 Venue: “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University Splaiul Unirii 176, Bucharest, Romania
Conference Program September 4, Day 1
12:30 -12:45 Opening remarks (Auditorium) 12:45 - 13:45 Keynote Lecture:
現代日本語条件文の意味と用法 Yoshikazu Suzuki (Kobe University) (Chair: Carmen Săpunaru Tămaș)
(15’ coffee break) 14:00 - 14:50 Guest lecture:
Ningyō: The Unexpected World of Japanese Dolls Alan Scott Pate (specialist in Japanese dolls) (Chair: Roman Pașca)
15:00 - 16:30 Parallel sessions Session 1, Room A Modern Literature Chair: Irina Holca (20’+10’) x 3
Session 2, Room B Philosophy, Architecture, Aesthetics Chair: Oana-Loredana Scoruș (20’+10’) x 3
Adrian Bercea (Kansai University)
Anna Kato (Tokyo University)
The Kitsuneken Game in Miyazawa Kenji’s "The Bears of Mount Nametoko" and the Concept of Environment
―村上隆「黒田清輝へのオマージュ」が もつ意味― [JP]
Andreea-Larisa Avram (University of Bucharest)
Dana Milea (“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and
現代日本美術の新たな方向性への模索
Urban Planning, Bucharest)
A Depiction of Japanese Women in a Cultural Translation: Women’s Image in Etsu Sugimoto’s A Daughter of the Samurai
The Anatomy of the Place Where Children Play
Kyoko Kinoshita (Kansai University)
Roman Pa ca (Kanda University of International Studies)
Yoshiya Nobuko and the Occidentalism: Focusing on "To the Limit of the Sea" [JP]
Philosophy as a Method of Spiritual Progress
(15’ break)
Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary 4-6 September 2017, Bucharest
16:45 - 18:15 Parallel sessions Session 3, Room A Manga, Anime, Visual Kei Chair: Oana-Loredana Scoruș (20’+10’) x 3
Session 4, Room B Romania and Japan Chair: Irina Holca (20’+10’) x 3
Laura Paszkowski (Heidelberg University) Arisa Prestat (Copenhagen University)
Angela Drăgan (“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University)
Behind the Curtains of the Visual Kei Music Industry
Discovering Japan in 1915’s "Universul literar" Romanian Magazine
Olga Ilina (Tsukuba University)
Radu Leca (IIAS, Leiden)
現代の日本のポップ・カルチャーにおける ディストピアをめぐって—ロシア語系のアニ メ・漫画の雑誌を中心に— [JP][Skype]
Book covers of James Clavell’s Shōgun: A Case Study for the History of Japonisme in Romania
Tau Prestat (Copenhagen University)
Viviana Iacob (New Europe College, Bucharest)
The New Generation of Doujin: Changes in Doujin
Friendship Societies and Cultural Diplomacy
Distribution and Fan Culture
during the-Cold War:Case The Romanian Japanese
19:00 Conference Dinner
Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary 4-6 September 2017, Bucharest
September 5, Day 2
9:00 - 12:00
Workshops for students Workshop 1 (Room A)
Workshop 2 (Room B)
The Japanese Body as Project in Literature
The Universality of Adolescence From the Eradication of Adolescence to the Pursuit of Joy as the Core of Adolescent Identity in Makoto Shinkai’s Animation Works
Coordinator: Irina Holca Assistant: Monica Tama
Maria Grăjdian (Nagasaki University)
(12:00 - 13:30 lunch) 13:30 - 14:30 Keynote lecture:
The Battle of Imphal and Hino Ashihei’s Literature Chikako Masuda (Kansai University) (Chair: Irina Holca)
(15’ break) 14:45 - 15:45 Parallel sessions Session 5, Room A Postwar Literature Chair: Andreea-Larisa Avram (20’+10’) x 2
Session 6, Room B Anthropology and Religion Chair: Roman Pașca (20’+10’) x 3
Alexandra Bănică (University of Bucharest)
Mihaela Sighina (Kobe University)
Learning from Japan: Haruki Murakami’s Closed Circuit Terrorism
Saikoku Pilgrimage and the Tradition of Omiyage [Skype]
Makiko Kitani (Doshisha University)
Hironori Arakawa (National Institute of Technology, Akashi College Japan)
Yukio Mishima's "Bishin" and His Encounter with European Sculpture
(15’ break)
A Consideration of Japanese Festivals in Urban Areas: From Historical Changes in the Toka-Ebisu "Open Gate" Ceremony at Nishinomiya Shrine [JP]
Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary 4-6 September 2017, Bucharest
16:00 - 17:00 Parallel sessions Session 7, Room A Gender, Identity, Sexuality Chair: Roman Pașca (20’+10’) x 3
Session 8, Room B Travels and Travelogues Chair: Adrian Bercea (20’+10’) x 3
Ioana Fotache (Nagoya University)
Marcos Centeno Martin (SOAS, London)
Negotiating Discourse andBoom Identities in the Japanese LGBT
Ainu People of Japan in 1910s Travelogues
Yuhei Yambe (Kyoto University of Art and Design)
Stefano Romagnoli (Sapienza University, Rome)
Shouts from Hell: Countermoves from Inside Brothels
Hino Ashihei, the Troubled Traveler: Journeys to China and America
Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary 4-6 September 2017, Bucharest
September 6, Day 3 9:00 - 10:30 Parallel sessions
Session 9, Room A Japanese Literature in the World Chair: Roman Pașca (20’+10’) x 3
Session 10, Room B Pop Culture and Performing Arts Chair: Angela Drăgan (20’+10’) x 3
Katarzyna Deja (Jagellonian University)
Alice Teodorescu (Independent researcher)
Japonism in Polish20th Literature Centuryat the Beginning of
Beyond Borders The Transcultural Vampireof inMeaning: Japanese Animation
Saida Khalmirzaeva (Hosei University)
Makiko Yamanashi (Hosei University)
On the Formation of the Tale about “Homecoming Husband” [Skype]
Revue as a Liminal Theatre Genre: Its Characteristics and Socio-cultural Meanings
Irina Holca (Kyoto University)
Maria Grăjdian (Nagasaki University)
Why Literature? Shimazaki Tōson's Works and National Language Education
Modernity Revisited: The Dialectics of Revolution and the Nostalgia for Intellectual Activism in Takarazuka Revue’s 1789: "The Lovers of Bastille"
(10’ break) 10:40 - 12:10 Parallel sessions Session 11, Room A Visual Arts, Aesthetics Chair: Irina Holca (20’+10’) x 3
Session 12, Room B War, Peace, and Nuclear Energy Chair: Andreea-Larisa Avram (20’+10’) x 3
Deborah Levy (University of Vincennes-Saint-Denis Paris 8)
Dick Stegewerns (University of Oslo)
Mitate and Quotation in Japanese Visual Arts: The Spread of Imagination in Art History
Depiction of the National Self and the Asian Other in Postwar Japanese War Films, 1945-1965
Oana Loredana Scoruş (Kyoto University)
Miia Huttunen Finland) (University of Jyväskylä,
The Influence of the English Landscape Garden on the Meiji Stroll Garden: Fact or Speculation?
Japan and Cinematic Peace Propaganda in UNESCO’s Orient Project 1957-1959
Monika Kiss (ELTE University, Budapest)
Ryuji Yorioka (Tokushima University)
Esoteric Iconography as Curiosum: What Sells a Buddhist Art Exhibition Today?
A Comparative Study about Literature and “Nuclear Energy” in Japan and Germany
(12:10 - 13:30 lunch)
Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary 4-6 September 2017, Bucharest
13:30 - 14:00 Poster presentations (Day 2 workshop projects) 14:00 - 15:00 Parallel sessions Session 13, Room A Society and Economy Chair: Maria Cărbune (20’+10’) x 2
Session 14, Room B Teaching and Education Chair: Roman Pașca (20’+10’) x 2
Irina Grigorovici
John Rucynski
(Kyushu University)
(Okayama University)
Socioeconomic Views on Japan’s ‘80s Boom and Subsequent Recession [Skype]
Focusing on Japanese Culture in English Classes for Japanese Students
Martha Chaiklin (Independent scholar)
Manami Fujihira (Osaka University)
The March Forward: The Mechanization of Shoe Production in Meiji Japan
On Constructing Models of Japanese Teaching Training Programmes: Cooperation among Universities
(10’ break) 15:10 - 16:10 Parallel sessions Session 15, Room A Japan and Europe Chair: Adrian Bercea (20’+10’) x 2
Session 16, Room B Premodern Interactions Chair: Angela Drăgan (20’+10’) x 2
Carlo Pelliccia (CLEPUL- Universidade de Lisboa)
Jonathan Lopez-Vera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Japan Meets the West: New Documents about the First Japanese Embassy to Italy (1585) [Skype]
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Diplomacy with Manila in Castilian Documents (1592-1598) [Skype]
Maria Cărbune (University of Tübingen)
Kiyoyuki Tsuta (Osaka University)
Urashima Tarō and the School of Archetypal Criticism
Chinese Anecdotes in the Môgyû-shô (the Commentaries Written in Kana on Meng-qui (Beginner's Guide)
16:10 - 16:30 Closing remarks (Room A)
